Hi, OSU's Maureen Walsh has spoken and written about her use of Exiftool
for just this use case, here is a link for you:

http://www.mpwalshmetadata.org/2011/10/repurposing-embedded-image-metadata-
for.html

HTH


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On 11/19/12 3:31 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Howdy all,
>
>I need to extract all the metadata from a few thousand images on a network
>drive and put it into spreadsheet. Since the files are huge (each is
>100MB+) and my connection isn't that fast, I strongly prefer to not move
>them before working on them -- i.e. I'm using cygwin and/or windows.
>
>Just eyeballing these things, I see the headers contain everything I need
>in purty rdf. What's the best way to extract this? I thought tiffinfo
>would
>do the trick, but it's just giving me technical info. Of course I can just
>parse the files with perl but I'm thinking there just has to be a slicker
>way to do this. What's my best option? Thanks,
>
>kyle